Background
Moritz, Manfred Siiskind f was born on June 4, 1909 in Berlin.
Moritz, Manfred Siiskind f was born on June 4, 1909 in Berlin.
Dr. Phil., UniVersity Of Berlin, 1933. Fil. Dr., University of Lund, 1951.
1959-1973, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Lund. 1973, ■fur. Dr honoris causa, Lund.
he Studien (1951) analyse several fundamental 1(*eas of Kant’s ethics, for example the doctrine of Autonomy and Achtung vordetn Gesetz (reverence ®.r, and der Àquivalenzsatz der Verp- - h'htung, a thesis which is implicit in Kant acc°rding to Moritz. His analysis of Kant breaks ground in respect of method and, together, he works of 1951 to 1960 form the most lri,Portant contribution to the study of Kant's m°ral philosophy in Sweden after Hagerstrom's m°numental Kants Ethik (1902). Moritz insists that logical relations exist only ®(ween sentences having a truth value, and he ares Hagerstrom’s view that ethical sentences |V"e neither true nor false. This leads him to reject e usual interpretation of deontic logic and of the aditional concept ofjuridicial inferences. Many n°( all) theorems of deontic logic are to be interpreted as normative principles: there is a similar approach in Moritz’s discussion of the principle ‘ought implies can’, and in his analysis of free will. In the essay of 1964, a short but illuminating paper, Moritz makes a very important distinction between two often confused senses of‘natural law’.